Improvement in purifying liquids by galvanism



A. GROSSE. PURIPYING- LIQUIDS.-

Patented Jan. 6, 184:8-i

. of a different shape.

, UNITED` STATES PATENT OFFICE.

ANDREWCROSSE, OF BRO'OMFIELD, COUNTY 0Fl SOMERSET, ENGLAND.

IMPROVEMENT vIN PURIFYING LIQUIDS BY GALVANISM.

Speciiication forming part of Letters Patent No. 5,4 09, dated January 6, 1848.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that 1 ANDREW CRossE, of Broomeld, in the county o f Somerset, esquire, a subject of the Queen of Great Britain, have invented or discovered new and useful improvements in treating fermentable and other liquids so as to. cause impurities or matters to be extracted or precipitated; and I, the said ANDREW Cnossn, do hereby declare that the nature of my said invention and the manner in which the saine is to be performed are'fully described and ascertained in and ,by the following statement thereof, reference being had to the drawing hereunto annexed, and to the gures and letters marked thereonthat is to My invention consists in 'applying electric currents to act ou fermentanle, fermented, or other liquids from which itis desired to extract or precipitate impurities or matters.

In treating wine, beer, or other fermentable or unfermented liquids I can apply electric is that shown in the drawing, which consists of porousvessels a b, which are immersed in the liquid to be operated on, so that the upper part comes above the liquid, and when such apparatus is to be used in or applied to closed vessels containing the liquid tobe treated, the upper parts of the vessels a b rise out of the vvessel containing the liquid, and the vessels a b are open to the atmosphere.

The apparatus a b and containingvessel c may be made suitable to operate on five hundred gallons, the vessel cin this case being open, but it may be closely covered, and be I do not, however, con- Vfine myself to such arrangement of apparatus,

i as the same may be varied.- Supposing the fermented liquid placed in the vessel c be wine, or beer, or other fermeutug liquid, then during the process of fermentation I keep up the influence of the electric apparatus till it is ascertainedthat the degree of attenuation has been obtained, when I remove the liquid and cask it off and close it. I use water in the porous vessels a b, and I have found ity desirable to change itz-daily.

Into the vessel a is placed a sheet ofzinc, d, and in the vessel b, -I place a coil orrcylin drical frame, az, of iron wire, and connect these together by a strip of sheet-home, and with respect to fermented liquids I have found that such process materially improves the charac ter ofthe wine, or beer, or other fermented liq- 'uid operated on, also rendering it less liable to become sour.

I have found that applying apparatus suitable for obtaining like electric action on a fermented liquid in a closed cask or other vessel will tend to prevent its becoming acid, in which case electric apparatus such as' I have described is to be introduced through the cask or vessel in such manner -as to leave the vessels a b open to the. atmosphere, and by like means may wine, beer, and other ,fermented liquids be restored from partial acidity, and preserved from becoming more and more acid.

ing impurities from water, and for this purpose a similar vessel, c, and electric apparatus `would be used, and the impuritiesof the water would be precipitated, and any acid and alkaline properties would go to the vessels a and b which are employed, and by such means will water be found to be purified. I

. In applying the invention to sea-water .l first cause the water to bedistilled, and then opa crate by electric action, and I'have found the water improved by passing in small streams,

ating-by electricity.

My invention may also be applied to milk, to preserve it sweet, by constantly removing which tend to render'milk sour, and this I do My invention is also applicable for sepa-rat-l through the atmosphere, in addition to oper I therefrom by'electric action those properties by placing milk in an open vessel similar to c, of applying electric action to extract or sepand employ like electric means. l arate impurities or matters from fermentable,

.Having thus described the nature of my 1n fermented, or other liquids.

vention, and the manner in which the seme is ANDREW GROSSE. to be performed, I wouldhave it understood Witnesses:

that I do not confine myself to `the details, W. H. RITCHIE, but Lincoln Inn.

What I claim is- JOSEPH MARQUELT,

The mode, substantially as'herein described, Clerk fn the Consulate U.- S., London. 

